| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #81 | 3.853 | 3.853 |
| Fun | #199 | 3.353 | 3.353 |
| Audio | #312 | 3.118 | 3.118 |
| Overall | #326 | 3.157 | 3.157 |
| Graphics | #417 | 3.147 | 3.147 |
| Game Design | #486 | 2.853 | 2.853 |
| Innovation | #547 | 2.618 | 2.618 |
Ranked from 34 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does you game fit the theme?
In order to win this game, you cannot be alone.
You have to gather all your monkey friends, and this way you can beat the enemy! You're not alone with all your monkey friends!
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I did code it all myself from scratch. I used a game engine with plugins and extensions.
I did not make the assets myself from scratch.
The platforming needed more obstacles to help make it exciting, as there was no real threat. I timed out on the last section, didn't feel like enough time to get monkeys i'd missed.
Didn't really get the purpose of all the monkeys. They didn't help out in the first two fights or give you extra health or lives or anything.
Fun game! I don't usually finish games but this one I did, it was fun and challenging just in the right level.
I like the design that you can't go back, which means your jumps have consequences and to get a perfect score you have to be precise, but you're not punished hard for missing the best jumps since you can collect monkeys from the bottom aswell. Time challenge was just about right too, I finished with 56 monkeys and 2 seconds left on the clock .
Loved it! :)
Hey there!
I'm really happy about your comment!
You're the first person who really gets my game! :)
Well done for 56 monkeys and thank you for the compliments!
I will build this game out in the future to make it more funky and fun!
So if you want to feel free to follow me if you want news on the game.
(I'm gonna post 2 cool games in the near future and then I'll start improving my jam games!)
Hello. Nice game with Fantastic music! rated! Please try mine, too. https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-8/rate/1681109
Very fun game!!!! Music fitted perfectly, and the whole monkey pack was cute and spot on with the theme.
The platforming feels very janky. I don't love the parts where you have to jump up 3 or more stacked platforms to get a monkey. The autoscrolling feature makes it really frustrating to get some of the monkeys. The I really like the sound and graphics tho!
Really nice game.
Couple of things I thought would be a bit better.
1) it should be way easier to find the main monkey in the sea of monkeys😂
2) I wish the other monkeys were able to also collect friendly monkeys it would make it feel better and give you the advantage of having a sea of monkeys
3) When you arrive at the boss part you stop in your tracks and the big monkey suddenly appears and it feels like a cheap way to die tbh
the boss levels are easily winnable by staying on any platform though, I'd say arrive in an area with no platforms then wait for 3 seconds or so than the boss arrives so the players know what to expect, or keep the platforms but have the boss aim at your platform
its a nice game, Good job!
Hi there!
Thanks for playing and the comment.
1) I thought it's kind of hilarious how you can loose track of the main monkey haha
2) I thought about that, but then you could just run through the entire area and the monkeys collect everything for you, so that wouldn't work at all.
3) There will be changes to the gorilla fights in the future. But if the gorilla aims directly at the monkey, then it'll be too hard.
Thanks for your time!
Pretty fun game, I enjoyed playing this! I wish it was a bit easier to see the main monkey. Maybe take away the platforms during the boss too so that the player has to jump to avoid the bananas and not just stand on a higher platform.
Fun little platformer. Clever idea for the theme.
I wish the last section gave you more time as it seems to require almost never stopping.
Not alone... now that's a sure thing!
What a pleasure to find yourself at the end with an army of little monkeys!
The music is very well found and remains in the head, I think I'll sifloter it all day ^^
I found sometimes frustrating not to be able to go back, I wanted so much to take all these little monkeys! Is it a choice on your part?
Otherwise the realization is simple but neat, I guess you have experience in game jams? For my part it is my first game jam and I am inspired by your creation for future ones.
This game deserves to see its development continue, with animations and more diversity. Do you plan to continue its development?
Congratulations for your work.
Hi there!
I really appreciate your well thought through and very kind comment!
Indeed I chose to stop the monkey from going back, to keep up the pressure to run forwards and focus more on jumping the platforms correctly.
Yes, I plan to continue the game after the jam, because I did not have a lot of time for this jam. It would be much nicer to have a tribe of gorillas, not just one gorilla. And that they jump up the platforms to make avoiding the bananas more interesting. And probably attacking the gorilla and throwing bananas at him could be an option. Obviously animations, and I had some other cool ideas that I want to add.
Well I have seen the screenshots of your game, (I wasn't able to properly run it on my PC), but it is absolutely impressive! How you implemented expandable mechanics so you can build out your space ship, all the glow effects and VFX, the particle effects, the collision effect when planet earth gets hit, it's really an amazing piece of work, especially for your first game jam! Super well done! Especially for your first jam game!!
Unfortunately I did not have that many sleep less nights as you to work on the game lol, only one sleepless night. So I posted a short game. How did you guess I had prior experiences lol?
So I have two major browser game projects that I'm going to release as soon as they are finished. After that I will start working on my previously made jam games. There is one other jam game completely buggy, so I'll do that first and after that most likely this ape game. I want to turn it into a colorful game of jungle chaos and unexpected thrills, as it deserves! There is so much you can do with it, so I will have a look which features I'll have time to implement.
Feel free to follow me if you want updates on the game and other games I'll post.
Ah it's a pleasure to run into someone who takes the time to actually respond to comments!
I see that you have several projects in progress, I subscribed to your account to follow the developments!
I suspected that this was not your first game jam because you went to the basics and you proposed a game with mechanisms that work without getting lost in trying to do more and more and misusing all the tracks. We must have a tendency to think too big the first few times. I myself have been working on another project for a year, I can't see the end of it because I keep adding features. I love games where you can unlock skills so I put them in all my games ^^
I will follow the evolution of this monkey game, with what you plan to add it will be really fun I guess!
Yes i'm french :D
Of course, great comments merit a great response! ^^
Yes, 'Apes, Together, Strong' and 'Split Jump' are still in progress and will have great improvements. And I still want to add more features to 2 other games.
That was a very smart and educated guess from you! Yes, after a while it is easier to organize yourself and know how much you can do.
Also I wanted to create the mechanics for automatic jumping so I can use it in another game, so that was what I was trying to do in this game.
Yeah, when you work on a super big project, it's super tough to consistently work on it, and especially if you keep adding new stuff. I understand that creative drive. I think it's important to know your end goal so that you can be efficient. Do you want a lot of people to play your game? Then maybe you can finish it without new features, and when you see a lot of people play it, add more. Or if you want to sell it, plan on marketing strategies. Thomas Brush talked about creating a shortened version prototype, but which is very polished to find sponsors for your game.
Nice, I'm happy you're interested in the monkey game. There will be some cool add ons to it, I'll have a lot of fun with it!
very happy and energetic atmosphere. love it! Didn't you procedurally generate the map? that's really cool! I can see someone already mentioned that it's a bit repetitive. Maybe you could add more different types of platforms that would help.
there's one big issue is that the upper row of platforms is too high. Thus, I was off the screen most of the time when I jump.
Thank you very much for playing my game and taking the time to write!
Yep the platforms are generated.
I could add different platforms, yes, for each stage. But I had actually much more engaging things in mind, more interactive than different platforms.
Just didn't have the time to do it before the deadline :)
Nice game! A bit repetitive, but I liked the atmosphere and the story, congratulations =)!
really fun game
but after a while if you have a big number of monkeys the audio sounds a little bit weird, but overall very nice game
APESSSSSSS! Great music and art! Was fun to have more and more monkeys following
I liked the frantic way the monkeys followed behind you! also enjoyed the minibosses that divided the gameplay into different sections, I would say that the gameplay is a bit unforgiving, if you fall down, it could be a while until you get a platform to get back up again.
still, I had a lot of fun, good job!
Hey, thank you for playing!
I thought about making the monkey be able to walk back a little. Or I could make it so you can always walk back to the last jumpable platform.
I'd need to think what would provide the fun-est experience, also together with other features I might add.
Because the goal is to follow the gorilla as fast as possible.
Btw. your profile picture is amazing, with the melting floating ice cream!
Cool game, you could make it so that you can also move with AD because epic gamers like me are more used to that and some keyboards don't have arrow keys. MONKEY
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